A big change in the story of the game as opposed to the movie is the removal of the organization SPECTRE. The organization has been renamed OCTOPUS, with another change in that it lacks a main leader like SPECTRE had. The game begins with a fairly standard opening, with Elizabeth Stark, the Prime Ministers daughter, being kidnapped by OCTOPUS agents while at a formal party. Fortunately, Bond was assigned to stop just such an event occurring, and stops OCTOPUS, saving Stark in the process. Similar to the film, OCTOPUS plans to embarrass Bond for the death of Dr. No. Their plan is focused around the theft of a Soviet encoding machine known as the Lektor, using the help of a defecting Soviet agent. The agent, Tatiana Romanova, is being used to lure James Bond into a trap in which he will steal the Lektor, then be ambushed and killed for it in a humiliating fashion. Romanova is sent by Rosa Klebb, an agent of the KGB, who has secretly defected from OCTOPUS. Her assistant Dr. Grant helps you through the first half of the game, then attacks you during the second half. The end of the game involoves a final assault on OCTOPUS headquarters

James Bond, M, Miss Moneypenny, Tatiana Romanova, Q, Red Grant, Kerim Bey, Rosa Klebb, Elizabeth Stark, and Eva Adara.